Credit: The Associated Press

In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, file photo, an Apple iPhone 6s Plus smartphone is displayed at the Apple store at The Grove in Los Angeles. The FBI said Monday, March 28, 2016, it successfully used a mysterious technique without Apple Inc.'s help to hack into the iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California, effectively ending a pitched court battle between the Obama administration and one of the world's leading technology companies. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

A U.S. magistrate judge granted an FBI request to order Apple to help investigators get data from a locked iPhone in a Boston gang case, according to documents unsealed in federal court today.

In an order in February, Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler said Apple must provide “reasonable technical assistance” to the FBI to get information off a phone seized from Desmond Crawford, an alleged member of the Columbia Point Dawgs.

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